by Collectif | 3 Feb, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
On 17 January, MPs appointed Euro MP, Antonio Tajani,”as President of the Strasbourg Parliament”. A centre-right candidate and member of the European Popular Party (EPP), he is also close to Silvio Berlusconi and “an experienced European...
by Collectif | 3 Feb, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Japanese, American and British scientists have carried out a feasibility study on growing transplant organs in a host animal with a view to interspecies grafts (xenografts) between rats and mice. This approach is “far from being at the experimental stage in...
by Collectif | 3 Feb, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives, Genome
Two babies “saved from previously incurable leukaemia” by injections of genetically modified immune cells “are doing well” more than one year on from the first injection. Scientists have just published details of their studies. They are...
by Collectif | 2 Feb, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Scientists have announced “the creation, for the very first time, of chimera embryos containing human and porcine cells”. The authors of the study are American, Juan Belmonte from Salk Institute, and Spanish (University of Mercia). The long-term aim of...
by Collectif | 2 Feb, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
From 24 to 27 January, the Employment Court of Appeal in the district of Jönköping, Sweden, heard the case of midwife Ellinor Grimmark, who refused a job in three clinics “because she did not want to be involved in abortions”. In November 2015, a district...
by Collectif | 30 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Scientists at the Regenerative Medicine Center at Boston Medical Center and the University of Boston School of Medicine have created an iPS (induced pluripotent stem) cell research bank, which paves the way for research into sickle cell anaemia and its treatment. This...